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EASTER FUNDRAISER FOR PRIDE: Takeover Lehigh Valley hosts its annual Easter Fundraiser for Pride 8-11 p.m. April 4 at American Hairlines, 74 W Broad St., Bethlehem. Proceeds benefit Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley's annual Pride in the Park festival. The event, for ages 21 and over, includes a reception, music and dancing, Easter treats and refrehments, with music and dancing. Tickets: $20 at the door. RED CROSS CABARET AND CUISINE 2015: The American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley will host its 17th Annual Cabaret & Cuisine: At the Hop … Again! fundraising event April 10 at the Lehigh Valley International Airport Hangar 2, 3311 Airport Road, Allentown. The event...

If Heritage Blues Orchestra’s Grammy-nominated debut album “And Still I Rise” sounds decidedly different from most popular blues music today — a raw and rough throwback to Deep South field-workers chants and seminal gospel chants — that’s the whole...

The inaugural Allentown JazzFest has become a six-day event that will feature 16 performances in late April and early May at nine downtown locations — many of them free, organizers announced Friday.What started as a three-day festival at Allentown's...

You have surely heard spirituals, but you might not appreciate the immense power and passion they express. Spirituals are the religious songs of African American slaves, expressing their sorrow and their coded longing for freedom.
On Saturday, one of the...

Allentown JazzFest, the first-year festival that will celebrate America’s indigenous music genre in the city’s downtown in late April and May, has become a six-day event that will feature 16 performances in nine locations — many of them free, officials...

The formula behind the music called the blues has been pretty much the same since it originated in African-American communities in the Deep South around the end of the 19th century. With a winning recipe, why change?
That’s sort of the position in...

The words are sung in English and it's pretty gritty English at that. The setting is a dusty crowded New York City tenement and the characters are struggling inner city residents.
"La Traviata" it's not.
What "Street Scene" is, is...

Few organ fans have not heard the name Eric Plutz. The Princeton University organist has garnered critical acclaim, with performances called "stunning" by American Organist magazine. He has performed as a soloist or accompanist in the great...

Allentown Jazz Fest has added Allentown Art Museum and the ballroom in the city’s new Renaissance Hotel as concert venues for the fledgling music festival that will hold its first year downtown in late April and early May.
The museum will hold a Jazz...

No other dance form is as rich in mystery, sensuality or history as the tango. Born in the brothels and low cafes of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century, today it revels in the highest of chic, with women in sleek evening gowns and men in tuxedos...

Why is it not surprising that St. Patrick’s Day was a great occasion for a George Thorogood concert?
A holiday most celebrated by inebriated excess seems perfect for a band whose biggest hits proclaim “I Drink Alone” and order up “One Burboun, One...

It's almost spring, a fine time to welcome the warm weather with the cheerful music of Mozart. On Sunday, the Sinfonia Virtuosi, composed of 20 or so members of the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, presents an all-Mozart program of works for flute,...

Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, Steely Dan, and others were all in one show, as the Sonic Rock Orchestra debuted at the Dutch Country Players Theatre near Telford Saturday night. A venue out in the country might not seem the most likely place...

Having heard the Reading Symphony Orchestra perform admirably in a pair of recent pops concerts -- first a New Year’s Eve program featuring a salute to Billy Joel and Elton John, then a Valentine’s Day concert with a Motown groove -- I couldn’t wait to...

During a career that last year marked 40 years of recording, blues-rocker George Thorogood and his band The Destroyers has played a good number of shows in the Lehigh Valley.
The band played Castle Garden in South Whitehall Township in 1984, Bilera...

It might have been cold and blustery outside, but the Allentown Symphony Orchestra really turned up the heat inside Miller Symphony Hall Saturday night and Sunday afternoon with a soul-warming program infused with Latin-inspired rhythms.
Featured soloist...

During a career that last year marked 40 years of recording, blues-rocker George Thorogood and his band The Destroyers has played a good number of shows in the Lehigh Valley.
The band played Castle Garden in South Whitehall Township in 1984, Bilera...

During a career that last year marked 40 years of recording, blues-rocker George Thorogood and his band The Destroyers has played a good number of shows in the Lehigh Valley.
The band played Castle Garden in South Whitehall Township in 1984, Bilera...

Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs an exhilarating program of music that originated among the European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at Allentown's Miller Symphony Hall.
Among...

Zeyu Victor Li, 18, a student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, won the 19th annual Schadt String Competition presented by the Allentown Symphony Association. The finals were held March 8 at Miller Symphony Hall.
Li performed Sibelius's...